To: Frank_Discussion
The first manned supersonic flight by an aircraft developed by a small company's private, non-government effort. AHEM. Someone forgot the Bede Aircraft BD-10
first supersonic aircraft developed by a small company's private, non-government effort.
Pretty sweeeeet...
To: ericthecurdog
Such things happen when you get real excited, I guess...
19 posted on
12/17/2003 2:16:35 PM PST by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: ericthecurdog
Have any other than the concept plane flown? The one I saw at Oshkosh a few years ago had not even flown at that time, but I read it had flown a while later. I don't remember reading that it had broken the sound barrier, either.
To: ericthecurdog
Did the BD-10 ever fly?
To: ericthecurdog
the BD-10 (dubbed the Micro Systems Aerial Target, MSAT) as its entry in the next generation target drone market-place
There are 2 BD-10s left. Grounded.
25 posted on
12/17/2003 2:22:21 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: ericthecurdog
I'm pretty sure the BD-10 never went supersonic.
32 posted on
12/17/2003 2:33:05 PM PST by
RoughDobermann
(Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
To: ericthecurdog
I don't think the BD-10 ever made it to mach 1. It killed most of the company test pilots and the owner of the company that bought the rights from Bede with flutter problems.
42 posted on
12/17/2003 2:45:04 PM PST by
hattend
(Mr Bush, the Supremes upheld CFR...what's your plan B? Too late to veto, now)
To: ericthecurdog
Until the tail fell off and it crashed.
100 posted on
12/17/2003 11:29:56 PM PST by
185JHP
( "What seest thou, Jeremiah?")
To: ericthecurdog
Good knowledge!
146 posted on
12/18/2003 12:38:41 PM PST by
My2Cents
("Well....there you go again...")
To: ericthecurdog
AHEM. Someone forgot the Bede Aircraft BD-10
Jim Bede's BD-10 was an awesome concept, but not successful. The first company developing it lost it's president in a BD-10 flap assymetry crash. The company that then took over lost it's president in a BD-10 structural failure crash.
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